Richard Caswell was elected governor of the state by the provincial congress in December 1776 and was re-elected to annual terms under the constitution by the General Assemblies of 1777, 1778, and 1779. The constitution allowed only three...

In June of 1781,Thomas Burke was elected as the third Governor of North Carolina. In October of that same year he was captured at Hillsborough by the Tory Raider David Fanning. Burke was paroled to James Island but when his life was threatened by...

Company G, Infantry, of World War I, mentioned; On p. 15 of the Bible Record is a form listing the number of hogs slaughtered between April 24 1863 and March 1864 (to calculate taxes owed to the Confederate States of America);